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This gives me a much better idea of Wiishu’s scale. Hah, good thing nobody thought he was good enough to eat.
Nice visit to the Post Office, too. Was that the Stamp Stomp?
I was just doing a little sketching. Thought I’d do more, but Smokey had other ideas. Plus, wow, I’m out of practice…need to do more poses, for one. The sketching I did was fun, though.
I also discovered — I thought I was going to draw realistic figures. Most of what came out were more cartoon, not quite exaggerated, but in there. Had fun with it.
We’ll see what else happens. — I have those costume ideas and another thing or two in mind.
I did a little sketch yesterday, too. Felt good, but out of practice doesn’t begin to cover it. For those who have read ‘NetWalkers and know about Wesley’s sketch-addiction, I just got through with the scene where he’s trying to get his sketching hand to behave for the first time in ten years. Felt a little too…personal!
You have a delightful shopping companion there! And his clothes are exquisite; incredible work. It is so easy to overwhelm such a small house elf with heavy fabrics and designs that are too big. You scaled it down perfectly. His coat and hat are amazing. I’ll bet he was much admired during his outing — which he would expect, of course.
Thanks! It’s hard finding prints for him as opposed to just small scale. Most are hearts or polka dots or plaids. Finding this fabric that let me pick and choose bands was a bonanza. OTOH…yesterday we found (drumroll) Dino-fabric!!!! I’ve been looking for fabric with dinos small enough for him ever since I got him. Not only that, this is greens and browns. DINO-CAMO! How great is that? Wait’ll you see the plans we have for it…
I am so envious. My third or fourth grade self told my science teacher I wanted to be a Paleontologist. She told my mom she had to look it up.
I was into a big dinosaur / prehistoric mammal period then. There were some really great children’s / young adult learning books at the time, and I soaked those up. So “dino camp” would be just perfect for almost any boy or girl. That’ll be great to see what you and CJ come up with.
DINO CAMO. Flippin’ auto-incorrect. Tho’ dino camp might be cool too….
Wiishu’s crushed. He thot Dino-camp was real. But here’s his haul from yesterday’s stopover at Hancock’s (I actually just stopped to show his admirers there his new outfit.)
There’s the dino-camo, his nerdy fabric (which might become his bell bottoms if it washes up soft enough, and his hippie-shirt fabric (yes, it has tiny peace symbols! :D) I know he needs tie-die for a true sitzin outfit, but this was just too cute.The barely visible denim-looking fabric under Puki is, of all things, swimsuit fabric! I’m going to use it to make nice light flexible jeans for both the little guys. (Maybe even the kids, if they behave themselves. I think Morgaine really wants out of that dress!)
Whoa – my eyes almost rolled back due to all the wild mod colours! Rock it, Wiishu and Pookie!
The very background is a dino lapboard I have, so it’s not quite that bad, but isn’t that fabric to Wiishu’s right cute? CJC found that.
Speaking of finds, check out my $4 ebay swing! Wrought iron stand (you can’t see the decorative top. Bad Janie! but it’s going to be great out in the garden this summer. (I will put it in a shady spot.)
That’s a TOO awesome swing!
Yes, I love the ‘Matrix’-looking fabric! And the Mod stripe on the left has lots of possibilities, not only using it as is but cutting some of the character stripes for trim. If I ever wore camo, I’d wear dino camo! I don’t let my Crew wear camo. Or crosses, human skulls, platform shoes/boots and the like.
Naturally, there are exceptions. My tiniest Shu has pink camo shorts. Some darling outfit with a skull on it get a button pinned on top of the face. Big Shuichi HAS to have platforms due to his job. Luckily the crosses on mid-size Yuki’s awesome black leather outfit are square ones so I turn them to be Xs.
I thot I’d never do camo for Wiishu either, but a) DINO camo is… just different! (And you’ll see why it’s important sometime next summer. :D) But there’s a darling little sequence on Alex/Lexi’s blog (Link on Wiishu’s Diary page) about a too-large camo jacket for poor Alex. It put me on a quest for camo for these little guys. I was also looking for dino fabric and low-and-behold! Both quests fulfilled at once!
I also can’t see them wearing sculls or crosses…except when doing the piratical. All bets are off, then.
Do we have a pic of Yuki leather outfit? Trying to remember….
It’s difficult to see the crosses here. It’s Yuki’s box opening.
http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/137757.html
When I did the tag search I suddenly was amused that only one of my Yuki Eiri dolls goes by Yuki. Everyone else is Eiri, Chibi Eiri, Taeyu, and Ki. And his Pukisha name will be Sourpuss.
Wow…that’s a GREAT outfit! Yummy!
Cool! Peace, man! ;D What can I say? I was a kid in the 70′s. There’s an inner hippie flower child in there somewhere, though I wasn’t raised quite that way.
The dino camo print is terrific.
But when you have an artist mom running around in her shop wearing funky looking prints, butterfly sleeved tops, and so on, with hiking boots and all, well, possibly your sensibilities are forever altered. Heheh. (She had bad ankles and wore the boots for support as well as protection against dropping something like frames or glass.) … The fashion sense was because she loved colors and patterns, and because if she got oil paint on them, it didn’t show too much. She could also rock the business executive look for more formal stuff. And mom was overweight, so this also influenced clothes choices.
Yeah, I could see her wearing any of those. LOL.
There’s probably still photographic evidence of what I looked like back then. Bwahahah! (Picture That 70′s Show and you’ve about got it.)
Wiishu and the pukisha kid will rock those for sure.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s a way to setup a playlist for 60′s and 70′s classic rock….
I bet you could set up a playlist using Spotify.
Oh, and I am being paged by a mournfully neglected (he says) house cat.
(Housecoat? No, auto-incorrect, my cat is not a housecoat. He does lay about a lot, but…really, now!)
Oh look at WHAT?!? Wiishu, don’t leave us hanging!
I hope you enjoyed your trip to the grocery! Lots of my Crew enjoys an adventure there.
Tee hee hee. Da’s for Wiishu t’know. Bwahahahahahases!
I have no idea. I turned him around, and there was that shot. By the time I turned, I didn’t see anything.
Awwww…I also now have a much better idea of Wiishu’s size. The photo of him on the dashboard is just *too* cute!
It’s always wonderful to see someone having so much fun with something. Thank you for sharing Wiishu with us.
Jane, I HAVE told you about Spoonflower, right? You can design and print your own doll scale patterned fabrics…
http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/dhawktx
Here’s a Wa-loli outfit made from some doll scale fabrics:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6769528719_e90022f5ac_z.jpg
Mitha: decidedly my pleasure! I hadn’t realized I’d never really posted a “sizing” pic of him. Here’s a PukiShu sizing photo:
And here’s Wiishu next to Wesley, who is a regular-sized Ken/Disney doll (he was the prince part of Beauty and the Beast.)
Donna: You did, and it’s a cool site, but way too expensive for the amount of fabric I need. Besides if I’m going to print my own fabric (which I am, eventually…when I have time) there’s printable silk you can print in your own printer that I’m looking forward to trying. I’ve also seen people printing onto regular fabric with just a leader, which I’m going to look into…using the retired printer down in the basement!
I got to thinking…what’s really cool about the print at home is once you have the pattern, you can design a print specifically for the pattern piece! I’m so looking forward to that! Talk about cool kimonos!
Meantime, fabric hunts are just one of those “things I never thought about until I had a BJD-kid.”
I have to admit…Most lolita styles I find just creepy, but Wa-loli intrigues me. (For those who don’t know, wa-loli is lolita style with a traditional Japanese twist.) I wonder if that’s because “classic lolita” is, if you will, based on Western styles and so raises my anti-pedophelia hackles with its deliberate sexy-child approach, where as wa-loli’s just kind of a cool twist on traditional costume (to my eye) so I don’t have the same visceral reaction. I wonder if it reads “child” in Japan or not. But to me, it doesn’t look childish-sexy, just really cute. In fact, some are downright Chinese drama kick-ass heroine looking!
This one…the pattern on the fabric is just…too French to my eye and creates a dissonance.
But that’s just me. And while it works on an MSD, on an LTF, it would be too large. It w/b scrambled lines rather than patterns. And thus you see why I have problems finding fabrics I want to work with! It’s not that I don’t like what someone else does…this outfit is cute, I just couldn’t make it. Couldn’t work with that print on that outfit. I actively hate hearts on clothing, not just for Wiishu, but for anyone. (shudder) Don’t ask me why, I just do. And I don’t want to work with white. I’ve got a black cat who loves to help me sew. I’d like to find a source for tiny stripes as they do make nice sleeves and such. Those have been surprisingly elusive even to online searches.
I think Wiishu can steal Wesley’s vest…
Wiishu/Wesley will be adorable for cons. You need to change Mr. W’s eyes for the full effect.
Isn’t that shamefully Bohemian in the worst sense of the word? I mean…a rubber band belt? I can’t remember what I did that for…I think it was Lynn’s BDay party, like, fifteen years ago?
Wiishu needs golden brown eyes anyway for Goku. Dare we tell Wesley that he and Goku have similar body bits? ROTFL. I was hoping to use Tink’s eyes, but I think they’re 16mm and Wiishu needs 14mm. Ah, well… What I really really really want to get made for him is his Dr. Tom outfit. Somewhere I have a scarf that I knitted for one of my bears back when I made my own. It wouldn’t be quite right…he really needs finer gauge yarn, but it would work as an interim. I have the fabrics for the outfit…
It depends. Whole orders of monks ran around with ropes for belts, so I guess a rubber band works if you’re tramping around the galaxy, shirtless and fancy-free.
He can always sing, “Rubber Band Man”….
“Look out, prepare yourself, for the rubber band…ma-an….”
A demanding little cosplayer! He will need a closet (Wiishu-sized) for all his duds!
Dear, Wiishu:
Thank you so much for the shirt “House Elves Rule!”. How did you know I have lost weight enough to start wearing that size shirt?
I have posted the photo on FB. With me is New Eiri and Sage.
Please thank Mama J and Mama CJ for mailing the package!
Love,
Mama D
House ewfs knows dese tings. (nods sagely)
Wow, darlin’, you look fantastic! I hope you like the color. Wasn’t certain with your hair, but I think it looks cool! I tried all the different options in the vneck, which I prefer, and I liked this one best.
Hope you don’t mind me showing you and Eiri and Sage off to everybody!
I don’t mind at all!
I WAS concerned about the size initially, since I wear ‘oh my god!, it’s coming this way!’ sized teeshirts, but I was really happy it fit! And it’s incentive to continue to lose weigh, too. Time to do some bitty barbells to work on those ham arms.
Speaking of kimono…
A very old (2008) photo of my Crew all in kimono, with some in hakama and/or haori.
http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/152024.html
This will also help give those who haven’t seen different dolls a taste of the different scales of these pieces of art.
The bright pink-haired elf boy is holding Talon, my Pukisha, the same style doll as PookieShu.
The little boy with the bright orange hair and green hakama/haori is a centimeter taller than Wiishu.
The three tallest ones in the back are 70cm, 71cm and 70cm. The burgundy haired tall boy is 63cm.
FYI: there is only ONE female in this photo and it’s a tiny PukiPuki Piki. Those are all pretty boys with ‘bits’.
Wow…such a beautiful crew. I’ve got to do some research in order to do the whole outfit. I’ve got good basic kimono and hakama patterns, but I need to know how to put it all together aesthetically. Love that bronze-y one in the back. What a yummy fabric. No Ki and Chi?!? Talon looks so cute!!!!
BTW…I saw your box opening for one of the baby Hujoos. I was looking at their 43cm ABS dolls and was really impressed with those geared joints! Have you tested one of those? Do they pose as well as they look like they would? Sure a good “entry level” pricetag on them. Not thrilled with the face sculpts…eyes are strange, but from the looks of your little girl, maybe they’re getting better at that?
Can you mod the ABS? I doubt it’ll sand worth a darn, but adding? What will stick to it?
Thanks! That shoot took a week to set up. Cranky dolls had to have boards and the bottom of the sofa behind the backdrop to keep them just slightly leaning back then everyone else leaned on them!
This photo was before Chi and Ki. I got both in 2009.
Yes, I have a 45cm Hujoo girl. Haven’t gotten her box opening posted yet but there’s a photo on my bjd FB page. I thought my Yumi girl was going to be a sweet thing and she says she’s from 1960s London and her name is Bob. 80 Yes, they have weird eyes depending on what kind of eye you put in the head. The Yumi photos on JunkySpot show a cute girl with blue eyes. My girl has red eyes with a black and white striped wig and she’s dangerous. She also wants tattoos.
Check out Asenva’s video on these dolls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RxXcnfTCIM
I’m excited JunkySpot has male dolls this size now, though I am not too fond of the faces. However, you could find a resin head you love and put it on the Hujoo body and save some money.
You can probably carve or sand or add to ABS but that’s more of a Donna question.
Bob, huh? I’m guessing not for the hairdo. :LOL:
Well, a girl named Bob, why not?
(Though one of my first crushes was a boy named Bobby or Robert. Sorta depended on which week it was. Hahah!)
Of course, “Ed is Ed!” as any Cowboy Bebop fan would know.
So Bob is Bob.
Nope, not for the haircut. I may try to get her in a bob because it may help her look cuter. Or try the blue wig with side tails I have floating around here.
What size are the mid-sized dolls in the front, such as the one wearing the teal green hakama? Around 36 to 40 cm?
The smaller, Wiishu sized doll with the orange hair and olive green hakami, kimono, and haori is cute. The taller dolls in the back row are “willowy,” IMHO.
Ah, that’s Chikara. He is a first gen Dollzone Megi, one of the first out of the factory. He is 45cm tall. That’s about the tallest the MSD-sized dolls go. He is all leg, too, so regular MSD-sized pants are too short for him.
Here is a comparison of five of my mid-sized dolls: http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/146305.html
You can see the body differences (chunky versus slim) in this photo,too.
Yes, the tall dolls are more willowy. At the time, that was the standard. Then Iplehouse started making muscular dolls (that weigh a ton) and more options became available for the collector.
Oh, I wanted to comment on how you liked the orange-haired boy.
He was my very first Volks doll and I adopted him (meaning I bought him from someone else, not the company). He is a YoSD Kuuta v2. V2 stands for the second time he was casted and offered for sale. The YoSD-sized doll is a VERY limited Volks doll offered only by lottery. Some Volks lotteries are not available in the US.
The markup on YoSD resale can be ridiculous. I was lucky to get my Kuuta at the price I would have paid if I had purchased him from Japan, so I was very happy about that.
His name is Nigel Bennett MacPherson and I love him a lot.
Hmm, Hatori and Shindo seem very high-waisted, leggy. Drew, Yuki, and Chikara seem more naturally proportioned to me. They’re all on the thin side, though. (And the makers might offer a wider range of skin tones and light/dark tans or lack thereof.) …The proportions on the faces are more anime and stylized, more androgynous, or bishounen. … I get the bishounen aesthetic, but I keep coming at it from the realist art perspective, that most boys / young men are built a little differently than that. (I’m not dissing the bishounen. :angel: I get the appeal; not immune to it, either. Nope.)
I’m not sure if I’d ever get a BJD other than as a drawing reference. Definitely not against having a good imagination and coming up with stories.
Just not in the budget for a long while, probably.
Neat stuff, though. I can admire and learn some about a fandom / hobby I don’t know much about.
That’s how hakama fit – with the high waists. Hatori is actually better proportioned than the CLines and he is slightly taller than the females.
I’ll dig around to find better photos of him.
Ah, OK. I’ve never seen how traditional Japanese clothes are tied. — Come to think of it, I should’ve noticed hakama are worn high on the waist with the ties.
The traditional hakama that you see is actually designed for horseback riding. The samurai were cavalry, except for those that couldn’t afford a horse. The high back is called a “koishita” (ko-EESH-ta) and would have helped support the rider’s back. The obi (or sashes) are designed such that the pair on the front are longer, they wrap around the front (right obi over left obi) and then are tied in a bow knot in the back. Then the koishita is pulled up, and there is a small spade-shaped piece that tucks between the back and the bow knot of the front obi. The back obi are brought around to the front and usually tied in a square knot, although there are other ways to secure them. The ends are never left hanging loose, that’s sloppy and shows poor habits by the samurai. There are 2 pleats on the right and 3 on the left as the hakama is laying down on the floor, or the bed, or whichever. Here is an illustration of what it looks like and how it’s folded.
well, the HTML tag didn’t work….
http://www.kendo-usa.org/reference/hakama_fold.htm
I am familiar with the different tie patterns in front but it is difficult to do any of them in that scale – trust me, I’ve tried.
And did you know there are two types of hakama – one with ‘legs’ for riding and one that’s a ‘skirt’? Men wore both and it is difficult to tell them apart (at least for me) due to the same kind of pleating in front.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-aikido-hakama.htm
I found out about this the hard way. I went looking for hakama for my large bjds and ended up purchasing a few of the undivided kind.
Thanks, Joe.
I wore my new shirt to work today!
Was everyone impressed?
Say…what do you know about immortality of soul dolls? http://www.dollios.com/shop/step1.php?number=47 That’s sure some beautiful posing!
The people who noticed thought it was cute. Got a pic at the front desk to prove I wore it to work. :LOL:
I don’t know if you remember two of the kitties I brought to show you at the con – a pink one in a tiny crochet dress and a white one on a human body. They had large ears. They’re IoS dolls. I am only familiar with those two.
Again, Donna knows more because she ‘encouraged’ the artist to make more Jack cats for us.
IOS did my Jack and Jacqueline dolls. They are styled after Myazaki’s Baron from The Cat Returns.
They pose good too!
I posted a pic or two, but they’re awaiting moderation… Didn’t know Lazarus Long was on this Board!
I don’t know why they aren’t showing! I OK’d it and the links still didn’t show.
Let’s see if they’ll work for me:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhawktx/5770214721/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhawktx/6091220380/
Definitely nice posers! Have you ever seen/handled their 60cm doll in person? I really like that hip joint. (Not that I’m getting one any time soon, just wondering…)
I think I’m still tending toward that chain mail for Vanye. I tried to nab a mesh purse for a reasonable price but they all escaped me. I got the pretty mesh for Morgaine, but not the rougher stuff for Vanye.
that 2nd picture is really nice on the posing.
I just wonder what archeologists will make of the “god / goddess idols” and “fertility gods / goddesses” a few thousand years from now! Heheheh.
(I won’t tell if you don’t!)
Just buy the raw panels and I’ll make them all nice and rusty/shiny for Vanye!
Nope, I will let you know if I ever have the chance to see one, but I doubt it. They’re very spendy.
Keep looking on the mesh – it’s out there, you just have to find it.
And I finally got my DDE layaway out of hock… Five Chiclines = 22 lbs shipping!
Hurray!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but it seems to me that the fact Jane is not posting daily means she’s writing! Woo Hoo!
I wish. I’m editing. Both the UpLink rewrite and the next Foreigner book and working on a cover for the Bren short story and trying to convince myself to get to work on the covers for the rewrites…and putting away Christmas (that was a biggee!!) I’ll try to be better about posting.
Wiishu and Pookie already have several photostories worth of pix but I haven’t processed the shoots yet. I’ve been kinda blank at night. My brain is just too creatively scattered right now. I can’t put off the Foreigner book or the short story, and I just want the new versions up and out. Wish I could wave a magic wand and have the covers done. I know what I want to do, it’s making them happen that’s eluding me.
I really don’t want to whine, but the reality is, it w/b easier to bomb ahead if ‘NetWalkers were selling…encouragement, you know, but it’s just kinda sitting there, both on Amazon and CC. The worst part is, I don’t know if it worked or not…whether I’m headed in the right direction or not.
And we started at the gym, which is eating up another portion of my day and leaving me, for the nonce, a bit non-motivated when I get home. I’m starting to get my wind back, so hopefully that annoying side effect will be gone soon.
But the real truth is, we’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, several eps a night and that’s pretty much eaten up my posting time. I’ve started several posts regarding the series, only to ditch them when the writers actually DEALT WITH THE ISSUES! Suffice to say, I was impressed. I’ll put together a post-mortem on the series in the next day or so.
Okay, but you’re still WORKING on things needing to get done. Get the editing and covers done and out of your hair is a priority.
Sometimes we all need to sit back and veg in front of the TV with some SF. *grin*